Pappastroff
@nichpo.bsky.social
Brit living in Sweden for 25 years.
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Read this.
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Read this.
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
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NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
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This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes
The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months
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April 2019 I had a run-in with Nathan Gill on Twitter after pointing out how bad Nigel Farage's record as an MEP was.
He said: "I don't think you understand what anti EU means 😁. It does not mean working to make the system work, it means working to make it not work. Simples."
Enjoy prison, Nathan.
He said: "I don't think you understand what anti EU means 😁. It does not mean working to make the system work, it means working to make it not work. Simples."
Enjoy prison, Nathan.
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
April 2019 I had a run-in with Nathan Gill on Twitter after pointing out how bad Nigel Farage's record as an MEP was.
He said: "I don't think you understand what anti EU means 😁. It does not mean working to make the system work, it means working to make it not work. Simples."
Enjoy prison, Nathan.
He said: "I don't think you understand what anti EU means 😁. It does not mean working to make the system work, it means working to make it not work. Simples."
Enjoy prison, Nathan.
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Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.
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It's ALMOST like there is a pattern here... If only Chris Mason can decode its fiendishly coded nature...
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It's ALMOST like there is a pattern here... If only Chris Mason can decode its fiendishly coded nature...
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March 2024: We launch a complaint against the IEA
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
Charity Commission: IEA must change to address political bias | Good Law Project
After a formal complaint from Good Law Project, the charities regulator has told a radical rightwing think-tank to act on transparency and balance.
goodlaw.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
March 2024: We launch a complaint against the IEA
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
12 days later: Charity Commission dismisses our complaint
May 2024: We complain about that decision
1 year later: The regulator opens an investigation into the IEA
This week: The Charity Commission says the IEA must change
https://goodlaw.social/8vmm
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A full TENTH of Meta’s revenue comes from advertising scams:
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A full TENTH of Meta’s revenue comes from advertising scams:
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
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This is not only exceptionally good work, it is also presented in a very clear visual way. Bravo, Sky News!
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news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This is not only exceptionally good work, it is also presented in a very clear visual way. Bravo, Sky News!
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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“Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan and Paris are all doing better than they were. It has been at London’s expense. There is no question about that.” ~AA
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan and Paris are all doing better than they were. It has been at London’s expense. There is no question about that.” ~AA
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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The rightwing think-tank Policy Exchange is breaching charity law.
Instead, of remaining balanced and unpolitical, it has become a vehicle to advance a one-sided and wildly inaccurate trans-hate agenda ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/xixz
Instead, of remaining balanced and unpolitical, it has become a vehicle to advance a one-sided and wildly inaccurate trans-hate agenda ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/xixz
Policy Exchange’s transphobic campaigning breaches charity law | Good Law Project
Policy Exchange, a rightwing think-tank set up for the “non-partisan advancement of education of the public” has been flagrantly breaching its objects and charity law. We’ve made a formal complaint to...
goodlaw.social
November 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The rightwing think-tank Policy Exchange is breaching charity law.
Instead, of remaining balanced and unpolitical, it has become a vehicle to advance a one-sided and wildly inaccurate trans-hate agenda ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/xixz
Instead, of remaining balanced and unpolitical, it has become a vehicle to advance a one-sided and wildly inaccurate trans-hate agenda ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/xixz
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You may have seen quite a bit of news from Caerphilly today.
But how much have you seen about the Reform candidate’s relationship with Nathan Gill?? Anything? Nothing?
Watch & read @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social on the trail of ‘Moscow Gold’
bsky.app/profile/then...
But how much have you seen about the Reform candidate’s relationship with Nathan Gill?? Anything? Nothing?
Watch & read @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social on the trail of ‘Moscow Gold’
bsky.app/profile/then...
"It's democracy, but not as we know it"
Nerve Reform UK correspondent
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social
went to Caerphilly on byelection day. Where *was* candidate Llŷr Powell, ex-colleague of Russian puppet Nathan Gill? And what did Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle say?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq83...
Nerve Reform UK correspondent
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social
went to Caerphilly on byelection day. Where *was* candidate Llŷr Powell, ex-colleague of Russian puppet Nathan Gill? And what did Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle say?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq83...
Film made by John Lubbock & Daisy Steinhardt
YouTube video by Lyn Cat Irv
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October 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
You may have seen quite a bit of news from Caerphilly today.
But how much have you seen about the Reform candidate’s relationship with Nathan Gill?? Anything? Nothing?
Watch & read @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social on the trail of ‘Moscow Gold’
bsky.app/profile/then...
But how much have you seen about the Reform candidate’s relationship with Nathan Gill?? Anything? Nothing?
Watch & read @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social on the trail of ‘Moscow Gold’
bsky.app/profile/then...
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So a virtually brand new news site can cover this story, which is of national importance, but the BBC and our msm remain silent?They’re not just silent they’re now complicit in a cover up of a foreign intelligence agency penetrating a UK political party. This needs to be spread widely.
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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October 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
So a virtually brand new news site can cover this story, which is of national importance, but the BBC and our msm remain silent?They’re not just silent they’re now complicit in a cover up of a foreign intelligence agency penetrating a UK political party. This needs to be spread widely.
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There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here?
For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)
For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)
September 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here?
For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)
For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)
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Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package.
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package.
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage?
Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?
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I gave a talk this week on the vulnerability of UK institutions to a populist govt and I was told by an audience member that the US and Hungary couldn't happen here. I said it absolutely could and Reform are learning fast. The complacency is scary
September 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I gave a talk this week on the vulnerability of UK institutions to a populist govt and I was told by an audience member that the US and Hungary couldn't happen here. I said it absolutely could and Reform are learning fast. The complacency is scary
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A reminder as Tommy Robinson marches for "free speech" in London today:
It’s far easier to defend the right to hold bigoted opinions than it is to defend bigotry itself. Free speech is about far more than your right to insult anyone you choose and call yourself a hero.
https://bit.ly/46i3vJt
It’s far easier to defend the right to hold bigoted opinions than it is to defend bigotry itself. Free speech is about far more than your right to insult anyone you choose and call yourself a hero.
https://bit.ly/46i3vJt
The free speech we need isn’t the free speech the right wants
The idea of free speech has been misused, tortured and weaponised. But we need the freedom to speak back at power more than ever, says Laurie Penny.
goodlawproject.org
September 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A reminder as Tommy Robinson marches for "free speech" in London today:
It’s far easier to defend the right to hold bigoted opinions than it is to defend bigotry itself. Free speech is about far more than your right to insult anyone you choose and call yourself a hero.
https://bit.ly/46i3vJt
It’s far easier to defend the right to hold bigoted opinions than it is to defend bigotry itself. Free speech is about far more than your right to insult anyone you choose and call yourself a hero.
https://bit.ly/46i3vJt
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This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!
September 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!
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NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
September 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
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The "March for Life UK" is a massive anti-abortion march, and to the surprise of no one it's being heavily influenced by the US far right.
US far right groups have spent millions in the last year alone, attempting to rollback our rights.
It's time to fight back.
US far right groups have spent millions in the last year alone, attempting to rollback our rights.
It's time to fight back.
September 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The "March for Life UK" is a massive anti-abortion march, and to the surprise of no one it's being heavily influenced by the US far right.
US far right groups have spent millions in the last year alone, attempting to rollback our rights.
It's time to fight back.
US far right groups have spent millions in the last year alone, attempting to rollback our rights.
It's time to fight back.
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"The real benefit for real people is that the sun doesn’t send you a bill at the end of the month... renewables are not just a different way of powering our cars and our homes; they’re about changing power in every sense of the word."
https://bit.ly/41yUE4z
https://bit.ly/41yUE4z
‘Every company wants to produce the last barrel sold’: the treaty to stop fossil fuel production
Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group believes Cop30 will help its initiative to phase out oil, coal and gas take shape
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"The real benefit for real people is that the sun doesn’t send you a bill at the end of the month... renewables are not just a different way of powering our cars and our homes; they’re about changing power in every sense of the word."
https://bit.ly/41yUE4z
https://bit.ly/41yUE4z
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Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll. Here's how to check and turn it off 👀
September 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll. Here's how to check and turn it off 👀
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Richard Tice MP on Radio Lincolnshire is asked whether the human beings fleeing dangerous situations, including children, ever feature in Reform's asylum policy thinking.
After a long pause, he replies: Yes. Just not those humans. ~AA
After a long pause, he replies: Yes. Just not those humans. ~AA
September 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Richard Tice MP on Radio Lincolnshire is asked whether the human beings fleeing dangerous situations, including children, ever feature in Reform's asylum policy thinking.
After a long pause, he replies: Yes. Just not those humans. ~AA
After a long pause, he replies: Yes. Just not those humans. ~AA
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Really good fightback by Maguire. ~AA
Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream"
Well said
Well said
September 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Really good fightback by Maguire. ~AA
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